Spark Matsunaga

Spark Masayuki Matsunaga (8 October 1916-15 April 1990) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-HI 1) from 3 January 1963 to 3 January 1977 (preceding Cec Heftel) and a US Senator from Hawaii from 3 January 1977 to 15 April 1990 (succeeding Hiram Fong and preceding Daniel Akaka).

Biography
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga was born in Kaua'i, Hawaii in 1916, and he served in the US Army during World War II. He served as a public prosecutor and private-practice attorney, and he served in the Hawaiian statehood delegation to the US Congress and in the territorial legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1963 to 1977 and in the US Senate from 1977 until his death in 1990. He died in Toronto, Canada in 1990 from prostate and bone cancer.